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Poll: What is your age?

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Re: Poll: What is your age?

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Post by officemonkey »

MichaelApproved wrote: post #70
pg wrote: post #62

The most significant result of this poll is that HN now seems to be past the point where we can rely on an honor system to prevent users from giving junk answers to polls. A few years ago we could. That's an unfortunate change. However, it's an ill wind that blows no good. When I'm done reading applications, I'll add a little tweak to HN to make the fonts super big for all the users over 80.

> However, it's an ill wind that blows no good. I never heard that phrase so I looked it up. For anyone else that's interested: http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/it%27s+an+ill+w... "This is said when things have gone wrong; the idea being that when bad things happen, there can also be some positive results."

You're in for a treat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a6xtg0auyk

Re: Poll: What is your age?

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Post by andreasvc »

ricardobeat wrote: post #91
yagibear wrote: post #19

Old enough to know that this has been asked before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2322031 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=517039 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=126923

In graphs: http://infogr.am/HN-age-poll-12515/ Went from a couple hundred answers in 2008-2011 to +3000 today, and counting. The distribution doesn't seem to have changed much other than the current fool answers, hard to tell since the charts are not in absolute scale. Would be cool to aggregate all the years for comparison, but I have no idea how to merge the age ranges. Script used to get the data: https://gist.git…

Nice graphs. It would be nice if the categories had the same colors across graphs, to enable comparisons.

Re: Poll: What is your age?

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Post by polymatter »

Posibyte wrote: post #43
kintamanimatt wrote: post #26

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Why? Why fuck up the data like that? The thing with HN Polls is you've no way to create polls in which you can select only one option. All you can do is list the options you want included in the poll, nothing else. On a side note, your personal website is fucking hilarious.

I found his activity graph on github very interesting: https://github.com/will

Amusing that the pattern isn't perfect because of his legitimate git commits adds noise.

Re: Poll: What is your age?

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Post by lifeisstillgood »

Daniel_Newby wrote: post #98
staunch wrote: post #77

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Sadly, I think you're going to have to ban them. COPPA[1] makes it risky to have children under 13 on your web site without clear parental consent. ..you could let them send in a note from their parents to get unbanned :-) 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childrens_Online_Privacy_Protec...

If the First Amendment allows children to traffic in snuff films, Nazi regalia, bomb making manuals, Satanist tracts, classified nuclear information, and so forth while in a government school , it's safe to assume that COPPA is an unconstitutional prior restraint on free speech. I am astonished that the ACLU has not already handed the FTC their ass.

Wow. And I thought my school was rough.

Re: Poll: What is your age?

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Post by lmm »

pg wrote: post #62

The most significant result of this poll is that HN now seems to be past the point where we can rely on an honor system to prevent users from giving junk answers to polls. A few years ago we could. That's an unfortunate change. However, it's an ill wind that blows no good. When I'm done reading applications, I'll add a little tweak to HN to make the fonts super big for all the users over 80.

If HN is no longer entirely full of goody-two-shoes I count that as a plus. Anecdotally my impression is that the diversity of stories has increased; we seem to have a wider cross-section of interests than a year ago.

Re: Poll: What is your age?

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Post by cstuder »

khet wrote: post #149
adlpz wrote: post #144

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31st Dec 1969 23:59 UTC, Ouch

Why is that bad? Please enlighten a naive hacker

If you convert this to Unix epoch time (Seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00), the result will be -1.

Which is problematic in several scenarios: - Databases which store dates in integer fields and maybe don't handle negative values. - Other overflows unhandled by date parsers - Libraries, which use -1 as 'invalid'.

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